Microsoft to let multiple pupils work from single PC
News The software maker is working on new option that will let will let several students work independently off a single PC, each with their own screen, mouse and keyboard [13 Nov 2009]
- Re Here we Go Again - Moley
- 20 years behind the times? - Yellowcave
Google shows Chrome OS, promises 2010 launch
News Google's long-awaited Chrome OS aims at security, speed and simplicity in netbook cloud computing [19 Nov 2009]
- Client sorted, what about the network? - manek
- You can't blame Google for the network - 88072
- indeed - Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
'Black screen of death' sparks Microsoft investigation
News The software maker is looking into reports that some users' systems are not working properly after installing the latest Windows security updates [01 Dec 2009]
Ballmer touts speed of Windows 7 sales
News At Microsoft's shareholder meeting, the CEO said the OS has sold twice as fast in its early days as any prior version of Windows [20 Nov 2009]
Microsoft may help News Corp vanish from Google
News Rupert Murdoch's media empire is talking with the tech giant about having its websites removed from Google search results, according to a Financial Times report [23 Nov 2009]
Bing integrates Wolfram Alpha results
News Microsoft's search engine will use Wolfram Alpha computation engine APIs for results in areas including nutrition, health and advanced mathematics [12 Nov 2009]
Microsoft halts Windows 7 tool after GPL code claims
News A tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on netbooks has been pulled after questions were raised about whether the software improperly uses open-source code [11 Nov 2009]
Firefox 3.6 beta aims to improve stability
News The third beta imposes a new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it, while a feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7 [19 Nov 2009]
Apple changes its UK terms of sale
News The manufacturer is now explicitly liable for faulty or misdescribed goods, after concerns raised by the Office of Fair Trading prompted a revision of Apple's terms and conditions [27 Nov 2009]
Warning over cloud computing's environmental costs
News A report by university IT organisation Jisc says technologies used to connect to the cloud are highly energy inefficient [26 Nov 2009]
- You must be joking... - 1000270662
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 tool used GPL code
News The software maker has said that a tool intended to allow netbooks to more easily move to the operating system was based in part, and unintentionally, on open-source code [16 Nov 2009]
